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HR 1201 111th Congress House

Air Medical Safety Act

Official title: To increase the safety for crew and passengers on an aircraft providing emergency medical services.

Introduced: May 20, 2009 See on congress.gov
Transportation and Public Works Administrative law and regulatory proceduresAviation and airportsDepartment of TransportationEmergency medical services and trauma careTransportation safety and security
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Feb 26, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Feb 25, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Feb 25, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 26, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Air Medical Safety Act - Requires a pilot of an aircraft providing emergency medical services, whenever there is a medical crew on board, regardless of whether there are patients on board, to comply with federal safety operating requirements governing commuter and on demand operations as well as persons on board aircraft.

Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to: (1) initiate a rulemaking to establish a standardized checklist of risk evaluation factors which shall be used by pilots of aircraft providing emergency medical service to determine whether a mission should be accepted; and (2) initiate a collaborative effort with the air medical community to establish performance-based flight dispatch procedures for such pilots and to develop a method to measure compliance with such procedures.

Requires the Administrator to initiate and complete: (1) a feasibility study of requiring flight data and cockpit voice recorders on new and existing aircraft used for emergency medical service operations; and (2) a rulemaking to require such devices on board such aircraft.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1201: Air Medical Safety Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1201/
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"H.R. 1201: Air Medical Safety Act." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1201/.
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H.R. 1201, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-1201/.
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